Mediagazer: Online travel magazine Culture Trip raises $80M Series B; founder says the startup has 300 paid contributors and publishes 3,000 articles per month (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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Mike Shields / Business Insider:

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Online travel magazine Culture Trip raises $80M Series B; founder says the startup has 300 paid contributors and publishes 3,000 articles per month — While a lot of travel startups (Airbnb, Ctrip, Kayak, to name a few) have made waves by disrupting how people search for and buy accommodation …

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Ina Fried / Axios:

Oath, which owns Yahoo and AOL, is changing its terms of service to force users to give up their class action lawsuit rights in the US — Verizon's Oath unit, which includes Yahoo, AOL and other media properties, is making a change that requires users to give up their right to be part of class action lawsuits.

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Kellen / Droid Life:

Source: Google Play Music will be replaced by YouTube's upcoming music streaming service, with Play Music users forced to use the new service by the end of 2018 — When Google finally launches its rumored YouTube Remix platform this year, one of its other services will be put to rest.

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